No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, commenced before the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect and no right accrued are affected by its provisions, but the proceedings thereunder must conform to the requirements of such code as far as applicable.
S.D. Codified Laws § 2-14-24
Actions pending and rights accrued before code
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Isaac v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (1994)
Most recently applied in Eagleman v. Diocese of Rapid City (April 2015)
Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (16).
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.